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Indelible  Photographs. 

Copyright,  1893,  by  A.  Wittemann,  67  &.  69  Spring  Street,  New  York. 

THE  ALBERTYPE  CO.,    NEW   YORK. 


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SAVANNAH. 


1L10  city  of  the  Union  blends  more  palpably  the  old  and  the  new  than  Savannah.     The 

1^1      place  has  to  a  large  extent  kept  its  individuality.     It  has  broad  shaded  streets  rolling 

in  primitive  sand,  and  lined  with  old  fashioned  residences,  with  a  stately  flavor  of 

9  the  aristocratic  about  them.     The  past  is  a  living  presence  in  this  beautiful  old  citj . 

3 The  statues  and  monuments  greet  one  with  their  historic  memories,  and  tell   mutely.  ye\ 

with  eloquence,  of  eventful  annals. 

"  On  the  first  day  of  February,   1733,  Oglethorpe.  laaid.ed\.at' •  Yamacravv  Bluff,  on  bhe 

s  Savannah  River,  with  112  colonists.     This  spot,  now-ihe  site  of  Savannah,  is  only  twelve 

:  miles  from  the  sea,  in  a  direct  line,  but  the  winding  of  the  river  lengthens  the  distance 

to  eighteen  miles.     The  colonists  cutan  openirJgJ  into^he  forest  and  arranged  a  quaint 

alittle  plan  of  a  place,  with'  everything'preeise'and  rectangular — streets,  houses  and  squares 

nlaid  off  mathematically  and  alike.     The  "Forest  City"  glories  in  a  system  of  commodious 

^public  parks,  constituting  .one  of  its  most  beautiful  and  healthy  features,  shaded  as  they 

Pare  by  lofty,  moss-hung  trees -and  ornate  with  monuments  and  fountains.     One  of  the  main 

thoroughfares,  Bull  Street,  strikes  the  principal  squares  in  the  centre  and  extends  out 

^  through  them  to  the  beautiful  enclosure,  Forsyth  Park,  named  after  John  Forsyth,  who 

j represented  Georgia  in  the  United  Senate  1808  and  1830  and  became  her  Governor  in 

•  1857.     Here,  in  a  forest  of  stately  pines,  an  exquisite  scheme  of  a  garden  has  been  laid  out, 

>  with  the  central  fountain  a  gem  of  poetic  picturesqueness.     The  park  extension,  or  /'a rude 

1  Ground,    covers    thirty    acres    and    contains    the    monument   to    confederate    soldiers. 

:  Returning  along  Bull  Street  to  Monterey  Square,  the  fine  shaft  of  the  Pulaski  Monument, 

surmounted  by  a  statue  of  liberty,  greets  the  visitor.     Count  Pulaski  fell  mortally  wounded 

in  the  siege  of  Savannah,  October  9th,  1779.     He  was  placed  on  a  vessel  to  be  sent   to 

Charleston,  but  hardly  had  she  sailed  out  of  the  harbor  when  he  died  and  was  buried  at 

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sea.  The  monument  was  the  last  work  of  the  famous  German  sculptor  Launitz.  Next 
we  reach  Madison  Square  and  the  Jasper  Monument  which  was  unveiled  February  22nd, 
1888,  with  President  Cleveland  present  at  the  ceremonies.  The  monument  was  designed 
by  Alexander  Doyle,  the  New  York  Sculptor,  and  honors  the  Sergeant  Jasper,  who  dis- 
tinguished himself  by  his  bravery  during  the  attack  of  the  British  fleet  upon  Fort  Moultrie 
in  177G.  When  the  American  nag-staff  had  been  shot  away,  Jasper  recovered  the  nag, 
reascended  the  ramparts  and,  under  the  enemy's  heavy  fire,  planted  it  back  in  its  place. 
He  later,  at  a  spring  two  miles  from  Savannah,  with  only  one  companion  beside  himself, 
captured  a  British  guard  of  ten  men  and  released  their  convoy  of  American  prisoners. 
During  the  following  disastrous  siege  of  Savannah  by  the  allied  American  and  French 
forces  under  General  Lincoln  and  Count  d'Estaing  the  gallant  Jasper  lost  his  life,  this 
time  attempting  to  replace  the  American  colors  within  the  lines  of  attack. 

The  DeSoto  Hotel  is  reached  next,  with  its  magnificent  porch  looking  out  on  Bull 
Street.  Here  in  the  midst  of  a  city  the  winter  tourists  finds  a  luxurious  home  without 
its  equal  between  New  York  and  Florida. 

The  Gordon  Monument,  in  Court  House  Square,  stands  in  honor  of  William  Wash- 
ington Gordon,  the  first  president  of  the  Central  Railroad  and  Banking  Company,  who 
died  in  1842  and  left  to  Georgia  a  legacy  of  great  internal  improvements.  Near  by  is  the 
new  County  Court  House,  a  structure  of  high  artistic  merit  and  the  finest  public  building 
in  the  State.  Past  Broad  Street,  the  Independent  Presbyterian  Church  and  the  Chatham 
Academy  attract  our  attention,  the  former  rebuilt  in  1890,  in  exactly  the  form  and  height  of 
200  feet,'  as  it  had  been  before  the  fire  of  April,  1889. 

The  dree  lie  Monument,  on  Johnson  Square,  was  erected  in  1829.  General  Greene 
had  been  second  in  command  under  Washington,  and  was  identified  with  Georgia  and 
Savannah  by  a  donation  from  the  State  of  a  valuable  landed  interest  here  in  recognition 
of  his  services.  He  died  and  was  buried  in  Savannah.  Fronting  Johnson  Square  stand 
the  Pulaski  House  and  the  Screven  House;  also  Christ  Church,  the  mother  church  of  the 
Episcopalians  in  Georgia,  founded  early  after  the  settlement  of  Savannah.  On  this  site 
stood  the  chapel  in  which  John  Wesley  first  ministered  as  chaplain  to  the  colonists. 


A  hundred  steps  further  Bull  Street  terminates  at  Bay  Street  and  the  (  Hty  Exchange. 
Bay  Street  is  the  wholesale  and  commission  business  throughfare  of  Savannah  and  runs 
parallel  with  the  river  and  along  the  bluff.  The  low,  dank  swamps  and  marshes  on  each 
side  of  the  city  have  been  converted  into  smiling  truck  farms  and  rich  vegetable  gardens. 
The  beautiful  city  no  longer  wrestles  with  the  burden  of  malarious  environment  and  has, 
by  the  transformation,  created  a  growing  and  profitable  truck  industry. 

Savannah  is  the  world's  greatest  port  in  naval  stores,  acres  of  ground  being  covered 
with  the  barrels  of  rosin  and  turpentine.  She  is  second  in  shipments  of  cotton  which 
have  reached  one  million  bales  a  year.  As  many  barrels  and  packages  of  vegetables,  a 
hundred  million  feet  of  lumber,  two  million  hides,  fifty  thousand  barrels  of  rice,  a  growing 
quantity  of  cotton  seed  oil  and  pig  iron  are  handled  annually.  Imports  amount  to  about 
sixty  million  dollars  a  year.  The  railways  carry  out  of  Savannah  a  yearly  quantity  of 
over  200,000  tons  of  commercial  fertilizers,  50,000  tons  being  manufactured  in  the  city. 
The  Central  Railroad  and  Ocean  Steamship  Company's  wharves  are  a  revelation  of  enter- 
prise and  magnitude,  created  as  they  were  out  of  a  marsh.  They  constitute  a  scale  of 
business  method  and  activity  that  would  do  credit  to  London  and  New  York.  The 
Savannah,  Florida  and  Western  Railway  and  its  connecting  steamship  line  from  Tampa 
to  Key  West  and  Havana,  known  as  the  Plant  System,  is  a  worthy  contemporary  of  the 
Central  as  a  potential  factor  of  progress  and  expansion  for  Savannah. 

On  an  arm  of  the  Savannah  River,  some  four  miles  from  the  city,  and  accessible  by  the 
street  cars,  lies  Bonaventure,  now  called  Evergreen  Cemetery.  This  famous  spot  has 
passed  from  private  ownership  to  the  city  and  shelters  the  dead  in  the  shadows  of  its 
gigantic  live  oak.  Broad  avenues,  draped  in  massive  festoons  of  pendent  grey  moss,  lead 
in  many  directions  and  present  one  of  the  wierdest  and  most  charming  scenes  to  be  met 
in  the  whole  of  the  South. 


Loading  Cotton. 


De  Soto  Hotel. 


Sun  Parlor  and  Hearth— De  Soto  Hotel. 


Gordon  Monument. 


Court  House. 


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Post  Office. 


Pulaski  House. 


City  Exchange  and  Bay  Street. 


East  Bay  Street  and  Savannah  River,  from  the  City  Exchange. 


Cotton  Exchange. 


Sampling  Cotton. 


Cotton  Exchange  Hall. 


Custom  House. 


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Chatham  County  Court  House. 


Whitaker  Street  and  Library  of 
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Liberty  Street. 


Bank. 


Christ  Chub  i  Square. 


Telfair  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 


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A  Market  Team. 


A  Cotton  Yard. 


Cotton  Crop. 


Cathedral  of  St.  John  the  Baptist. 


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